Example sentences of "[vb pp] for the purpose [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if the driver has stopped for the purpose of complying with regulation 8 or regulation 10 ( to accord precedence and not overtake ) ; |
| 2 | if the vehicle is stopped for the purpose of making a left or right turn ; |
| 3 | ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Senator Bennett R. Hapgood rose to his feet on the podium erected for the purpose in the sweeping grounds of the open-air Hancock Center in the heart of Austin and surveyed the crowd with satisfaction . |
| 5 | His theory was developed for the purpose of giving an account of the way words have meanings , but it can easily be adapted to the task of representing the meanings of actions . |
| 6 | Apart from harmonizing measures formulated for the purpose of establishing a common market , whose regulators will have a keen interest in acts in one member State that can produce effects in others , most harmonization instruments dealing with contracts are confined to international transactions . |
| 7 | These Regulations , which are now in force , allow partnerships of unlimited size if they are formed for the purpose of carrying on practice as consulting engineers , provided a majority of the partners are recognised by the Engineering Council as chartered engineers . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union was against consulting parties and organisations formed for the purpose of attacking the Moscow agreement . |
| 9 | I am encouraged to see that in the more recent case of Ensign Tankers v. Stokes the House of Lords has now rejected the notion that the mere fact that a transaction is undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a fiscal advantage compels the court to ignore and nullify all the fiscal consequences which are beneficial to the taxpayer . |
| 10 | Article 1 provides that service will be effected in Contracting States on the request of a consul of the state of origin addressed to an authority designated for the purpose by the state of destination . |
| 11 | So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned . |
| 12 | Thus , if the trustees of an interest in possession trust were actually to pay monies it will generally be the trustees who will be treated for the purpose of income tax as having made the payment and not the beneficiary ; if bare trustees , nominees or agents were to pay monies the beneficial owners or principals will generally be treated as having made the payments . |
| 13 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 14 | This is designed for the purpose of transition only . |
| 15 | that the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation was not the purpose or one of the purposes for which the transfer or associated operations or any of them were effected ; or 2. that the transfer and any associated operations were bona fide commercial transactions and were not designed for the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation ( s741 ) . |
| 16 | At each stage , the children will be assessed against appropriate attainment targets , which are to be grouped for the purpose into a small number ( the Task Group recommended no more than four ) of profile components , which will reflect the range of knowledge , skills and understanding the subject encompasses . |
| 17 | These are included for the purpose of supplementing and altering the standard conditions of sale . |
| 18 | Certain sections had been underlined in angry , wavy red lines , including one which read : ' … anything done for the purpose of , or liable to result in , the birth or hatching of a protected animal … |
| 19 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 20 | There was a male predominance because this group was initially selected for the purpose of a study of sleep apnoea , a condition that is commoner in men . |
| 21 | This system was written for the purpose of understanding travel-expense reports . |
| 22 | Colonialism had much the same impact on the traditional political systems with which it came into contact , especially those which were hierarchically organized for the purpose of a feudal mode of production . |
| 23 | Sultan Orhan , for example , is reported to have asked Taceddin Kurdi for a fetva on the legality of breaking an agreement over booty made with one of his commanders , while Murad I is shown just alter his accession consulting the ulema on the question of whether , in the face of threats from the Anatolian rulers , troops collected for the purpose of the against the unbelievers in Rumeli might be used to meet the threat in Anadolu first and the consequently delayed . |
| 24 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 25 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 26 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 27 | Notes : Adjustments to the figures have been made for the purpose of comparison where appropriate . |
| 28 | The Queen 's Bench Divisional Court held that a flick knife was an offensive weapon by itself , i.e. made for the purpose of causing injury to the person . |
| 29 | The intention may appear from an express definition in different terms made for the purpose of a particular section or group of sections . |
| 30 | It was held both by Avory J. and the Court of Appeal that the payment in terms of the unlawful condition was not voluntary having been made for the purpose of obtaining the licence and could therefore be recovered as in Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 . |